Caution is always warranted when it comes to driving, but now, in the days after Christmas and up to New Year’s Eve, is a time for heightened awareness. With Christmas behind us, many people will say goodbye to friends and family and travel home. The roadways will have more traffic, and with more traffic comes more danger. Regardless of the distance traveled, people should wear their seat belts. On Monday in Lincoln Parish, a car crash claimed the life of a man who did not wear his safety harness.

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Each year parents join together with school officials in the hopes of bettering the education of their children.

The book “Critical Evidence” by Sandra Rupert stated that a May 2005 Harris Poll on the attitudes of Americans toward arts education, commissioned by Americans for the arts, revealed strong public support.

Louisiana Tech University’s award-winning eco-marathon team brought home second place in the UrbanConcept diesel category and were the only compressed natural gas-powered vehicle to successfully run the track, but did not finish, at the Shell Eco-marathon Americas in Detroit.

The diesel vehicle, Diesel Dawg, won first place in vehicle design and third place in best diesel fuel economy in the Urban Concept class last year. It was also test driven by Formula One driver Fernando Alonso at the 2014 Formula One Grand Prix race in Austin, Texas.